Valadimir Lenin

Born to a nobel family in Russia in 1870.

He read Karl Marx but his revolutionary ideas were based not on exploited uneducated peasants but of the urban proliterate.

His form of socialism was called Leninism.

His revolutionary actions were bit different. He believed in armed revolution.

Whereas, Marx believed in gradual transsion from imperialism to parliament democracy (representative government) to communism.

However, representative government under czhar was a smoke screen for the ruler. So he decided to overthrow the czhar and parliament by armed struggle.

By the way, the army tried to overthrow the king and the kind sought help from the communist party.

The moment the communist party took control, the Polit Bureau had a firm grip on power.

Lenin introduced many reforms that formed the basis for global political changes.

1. 8 hour work day.

2. Land ownership and collective farms.

3. Worker Councils.

4. Educational reform and FREE education.

5. Semi Capitalistic industrial base.

6. Reform of Laws.

7. Restructuring army to defeat the White Army created by the dissidents of the church and the industrialist who lost power.
He organised the read army to defeat Poland and regained Ukraine.

8. He had a treaty with the West to withdraw from World War I for land exchange (Poland, Hungry and Ukraine which were under USSR).

9. Famine in 1917 in spite of October revolution.

10. Free the state from Church's domination.

11. Free the state from ethnicity and racial discrimination.

12. All races are equal under socialism.


He wrote extensively on Communism and Revolution.

Russians were blessed with Intelligentsia and Maxim Gorky is one of the classic writers and writing was in their blood.

Nicholas  II was reigning.
Pleasants were working under landlords and were underpaid. He relieved the peasants from slavery but that did not deter  the communist manifesto.

He went to war with Germany in World War I and during this time Grigorian Rasputin as the Church Cardinal had sex orgies that included the Queen of Russia.

Actually Rasputin was instrumental in the growing dissent on the ruling rich class.

His brother Alexander was killed (hanged) aged  23 for throwing a bomb at the guards and Lenin was 19 when this happened.

He was taken a prisoner by the czhar at the age of 23. He had a reasonable prison life and most of his writing came out while he was in prison.

He was fluent in German and French and lived in exile in Finland, Germany, Switzerland and London but NEVER in France.

He wad released aged 30 in 1910.

He violently overthrew czhar Nicholas Ii in his winter palace in 1917.

It was called the bloody Sunday.

He declared himself as the autocratic ruler.

He was sent to Siberia and was instrumental of writing many essays in appropriate pseudonyms that were smuggled into Russia.

He was hero for many and an enemy for the capitalists.

His baby photo was sent to space and his body is preserved and is on permanent display for the public.

He survived three assassination attempts and the last was made by a woman and she was hanged.
After this he became ruthless and crushed any opposition that opposed the bolsvicks.

The communist party had two divisions minsvicks and bolsovicks (minority).

He died aged 54 in 1924.

His birth place was named Leningrad.

He was a man with intelligence without which the world politics would be more chaotic, today.

Joseph Stalin of course took over the power of Russia after Lenin's death.

Stalin had an iron grip on the Russian power keg was a ruthless autocrat. He cleverly sidelined Trotsky.